Yeartide Apex god rolls and how to get them in Destiny 2

Yeartide Apex is one of Destiny 2‘s newer Solstice weapons, and it’s getting here with a bang. This SMG has a ton of good options in stock for its god roll, including a formerly exclusive raid perk.

If you couldn’t get a good No Survivors in Rite of the Nine, you just found a replacement. And even if you did get a god roll of it, Yeartide Apex might just bury it in your vault. This Legendary Tex Mechanica SMG feels amazing to shoot, and it has enough good options that you might want to keep more than one in your arsenal just in case.

Here are our god rolls for Yeartide Apex in Destiny 2.

Yeartide Apex PvE god roll in Destiny 2

• Barrel: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore
• Mag: High-Caliber Rounds
• First perk: Heal Clip, Demolitionist, or Attrition Orbs
• Second perk: Chaos Reshaped, Incandescent, or Burning Ambition

Yeartide Apex’s perk pool alone is good enough for me to consider dismantling all my No Survivors from Rite of the Nine. It brings a few deadly contenders, including Chaos Reshaped, formerly exclusive to Salvation’s Edge weapons.

There are three big hitters in the third column. Heal Clip is a staple of Solar builds, perfect for when you need some extra healing and/or if you want to activate Ember of Benevolence. Demolitionist is free grenade energy on a kill and has been a common sight in grenade-based builds for a while. Attrition Orbs has its place, especially after Edge of Fate buffed it in SMGs. The choice here depends on your build, but the three general-use perks work well in most scenarios.

For the fourth column, Chaos Reshaped is powerful enough in both the damage and healing departments. It’ll take you a few seconds of uninterrupted combat to feel its effects, but you’ll get a damage buff at one stack, plus a bigger increase in damage and periodic healing pulses at two stacks. Heal Clip and Chaos Reshaped together might be overkill depending on your builds, though that combination provides excellent sustain.

If you’re looking to scorch enemies, both Burning Ambition and Incandescent are suitable options. The former has the advantage of scorching on hit, while the latter is more suited to lower-end activities where you can get kills more easily. Burning Ambition plus Hellion synergize well with the Scorch from each feeding into each other for easier ignitions.

Yeartide Apex PvP god roll in Destiny 2

• Barrel: Hammer-Forged Rifling
• Mag: Ricochet Rounds, Armor-Piercing Rounds, or High-Caliber Rounds
• First perk: Lone Wolf or Transcendent Moment
• Second perk: Target Lock
• Honorable Mentions: Harmony, Binary Orbit

For PvP, aim for Lone Wolf as your first perk to get you a bump in aim assist, which gets bigger if no allies are nearby. Pair it with Target Lock for a damage buff with an on-hit trigger. If you’re using other weapons often, you can get great value out of Binary Orbit or Harmony as well. We aimed for a little extra range with our weapon parts, trying to squeeze any improvements to this weapon’s engagement range.

How to get Yeartide Apex in Destiny 2

Yeartide Apex is only available during the Solstice. During the event, look for Portal activities with a Distorted Solstice Engram as a reward, since they can drop both weapons and armor. These drops hinge on your reward level, difficulty, and Guardian Rank. The event’s reward shop also has Yeartide Apex for sale using Event Tokens.